1936 KLM Croydon accident

1936 KLM Croydon accident
	KLM Douglas DC2, PH-AKL, pictured at Alor Setar, Malaysia
Accident
Date	9 December 1936
Summary	Crash on take-off
Site	Croydon, United Kingdom ; 51°20′45″N 0°7′21″W / 51.34583°N 0.12250°W
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Douglas DC-2-115E
Aircraft name	Lijster
Operator	KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Registration	PH-AKL
Flight origin	Croydon Air Port, Croydon, United Kingdom
Destination	Amsterdam-Schiphol Municipal Airport (AMS/EHAM), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Passengers	13
Crew	4
Fatalities	15
Injuries	2
Survivors	2

The 1936 KLM Croydon accident was the crash of a KLM airliner on 9 December 1936, shortly after taking off from the Croydon Air Port (as it was known at the time) on a scheduled flight to Amsterdam, Netherlands. The aircraft was destroyed and 15 of the 17 passengers and crew on board died as a result of the accident.^[1] Two of the passengers who died were Arvid Lindman, a former Prime Minister of Sweden, and Juan de la Cierva, the Spanish inventor of the autogyro.^[2]^[3]

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